The Warriors: April 2009

...Levi is mobile!! What...were you expecting some other kind of news? As if we ever have anything exciting to announce in the Warrior house! Any-hoo...Levi has been crawling for quite a while now. 3 weeks and 3 days to be exact. Saturday he started pulling up on various peices of furniture and/or people. He has now figured out it works better when he picks something stationary. He turned 7 months old on Sunday. We are officially weaned, a fact I am positive hurts my feelings much worse than his. He is sleeping well through the night. Not quite up to Lydia's 12 hour marathons, but we are grateful for the 10 hours he does manage. He does wake up around 5am to eat, but is usually pretty good to go back to sleep. Levi has begun the babbling. He LOVES his mommy...and he really loves to give kisses. They are the sweetest thing. He grabs your face with both hands and then "goes in" really slow just staring in your eyes the whole time! Mister Romance already...too sweet! Still no teeth, but he is enjoying his baby food. He loves all the fruits; it is much harder to get him to eat the vegetables!! No stats since we are horrible parents and never go to the DR, but he is quickly growing out of his 9 month clothes. Long and lean like his daddy...

Easter is a big holiday in our family. We love dying Easter eggs and eating Easter dinner, but what we REALLY love is hunting Easter eggs. We have a HUGE egg hunt inside complete with prize eggs of various monetary amounts, prizes such as yoo-hoo's, food snacks and small games. The goal of every participant is to find the Golden Egg which is usually hidden in the hardest spot and worth around $25-30!! We had an exceptionally good Easter this year. Enjoy the photos!!

Lydia really loved making her Easter Eggs

I think this one is especially beautiful!

I guess we forgot to tell her cupcakes come with the egg dying...she seemed surprised!

Easter morning we woke up early and got the kids' Easter baskets ready at our house. We let them open their baskets before church.

I just couldn't pass these up...

Tia and Levi

Lydia and Annie

Lydia and Levi got Easter baskets at Annie and Grandpa's too...

Charlie and Nate were making fun of me taking so many pics of the kids so I snapped a couple of them. I think they were feeling left out!!

Lydia was really into hunting the eggs this year, so it was super fun for us to watch her get really excited. We even got her eggs that say "Hello? Anyone out there? Let me out!" she thought they were funny, but couldn't quite figure out what they were saying. She eventually gave up and decided there was a cat inside saying "Meow" instead of "Me out"...too funny!!

Brother was just happy to play with his Easter goodies

Lydia was really suprised to find something on her hand...

a stamp from Bible class

Hmm...how do I get the candy out of this thing??

Seriously mom, where's the candy?

Seriously hunting now

Tia thinks the Golden Egg is in the trash. Gross...who would put it in the trash? Oh, right! Probably the same people who put it inside a Ziplock in the toilet tank!!

That mouth looks like it is hiding something! Why won't she look at Mommy?

Aha! Chocolate drool...

Nathan is bummed about his $5 egg. He was hoping for the Golden Egg.

Too bad! Tia found it! It was in the trash after all.

Levi was really hoping HE would find the Golden Egg

For anyone else who has a bald child: Ebay has these beautiful bows for $5-$8 dollars, headband included. There are TONS of vendors with lots of different styles and colors!

I couldn't really leave her out of the bunny ears pictures. We just couldn't get her to wear them on Easter morning. She thought they were scary...

After Annie and Grandpa's (who is actually "Bunka" if you ask Lydia), we headed to Necon's Nana's house for round #3. This came complete with Easter Baskets #3 and these AWESOME sunglasses for Lydia!!